An American journalist from the Wall Street Journal has been arrested in Russia on suspicion of espionage. The information is being brought forward this Thursday by Russian state news agencies, citing the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
“The FSB stopped the illegal activities of US citizen Evan Gershkovich… a Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, accredited by the Russian State Department, suspected of spying on behalf of the US government,” the statement reads. authorities. .
According to The Guardian, the journalist was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains. The FSB claims that Gershkovich was “gathering classified information about the activities of one of the companies in the Russian military-industrial complex,” the British newspaper adds.
For the Wall Street Journal, 31-year-old Gershkovich worked for the AFP from Moscow.
Previously, he was a journalist for The Moscow Times, an English-language news website.
Gershkovich speaks Russian and his parents live in the United States, but are from the Soviet Union, AFP reports.
The Guardian reports that the journalist risks being sentenced to 20 years in prison if convicted of espionage
Source: DN
